The regime of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad is cooperating with United Nations weapons inspector to the satisfaction of the Obama administration, according to Secretary of State John Kerry. The first chemical weapons were destroyed Sunday.
But this is still the beginning phases of the operation. As Kerry noted at a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Bali on Monday, the Syrian government must continue on its current course.
The Syrian civil war continues after twp years, with the U.N. estimating that 100,000 have been killed and millions more have been displaced as a result of the conflict. Through it all, foreign journalists have been reporting from the country and they have been targeted as well.
Marie Colvin, acclaimed reporter for the British Sunday Times, and a frequent guest on The Takeaway, was killed in Homs in February 2012, along with French photojournalist Remi Ochlik. The makeshift media center where she was located was struck in a bombardment carried out by the Syrian regime against insurgents. Colvin was known for an eye patch that she donned after a shrapnel wound in Sri Lanka in 2001.
Paul Conroy was at the center, and was badly hurt in the attack that killed his colleague Colvin.
Colvin had personally requested that Conroy, a war photographer, join her on her quest in Syria when the fighting broke out in 2011. Writing of his late colleague, Conroy says she was a remarkable woman whose "reputation as a hard-arsed war reporter—one of the toughest, best and bravest of our time—preceded her."
Conroy joins The Takeaway to discuss his new book "Under the Wire," the remarkable journey he shared with Colvin, the missile attack that killed her, and the prospects for peace in Syria.<br /><br />For more, go to: http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/syrian-war-journalist-shares-last-moments-marie-colvins-life/